Notable Events and Controversies

In 2000, working in Lynn Abraham’s DA office, Negrinsigned the warrant leading to the mass arrest of activists planning protests against the Republican National Convention. He asserted police found probable cause of intent to commit crimes. Some defendants were held on bail ofup to $1 million. Judges tossed the majority of the cases due tolack of evidence.

He then worked atAramark, which profits from prisons, serving380 million meals to correctional facilities each year. It benefits from usingprisoner slave labor. It has lost contracts and paid fines due to shortages and low standards in prison food, includingmaggots androdents. The corporation has been picketed forracial bias in its hiring practices.

Negrin negotiated withOccupy Philly as managing director, communicating support for free speech in its early days. Negrinlater said the protest was not working well with the city. DA candidate Larry Krasner hascriticized Negrin over Occupy arrests.

Negrin currently works for law firm Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP. In September 2016, while he was employed there, the firm represented casino owners who won a case in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that struck down slot machine taxes inBensalem and Chester County. Slot machine revenues account for over 20 percent of those municipalities’ budgets. Communities including Bethlehem and Philadelphia could lose$140 million a year collectively.

Negrin has voiced opposition to reopening the investigation of the police shooting ofBrandon Tate-Brown, saying it would “set a dangerous precedent.”

In 2013, Negrin recounted a story about Kensington, saying about a drug dealer, “We’re going to look into things like civil forfeiture. We’re going to prove a case against that woman … We’re not only going to lock her up, we’re going to take her home.”

Endorsements and Donors

Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge 5

Negrin received$5,000 from the FOP. FOP Lodge 5 president McNesby met withDonald Trump in March 2017. Following the national FOP’s lead, the local chapterendorsed Trump for President. McNesbycriticized Hillary Clinton for inviting the mothers of Sandra Bland, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Eric Garner speak at the DNC. The FOP has along history ofdefending killer cops and is a major roadblock to police and prisonreform.

Other endorsements include thePhiladelphia Inquirer editorial board, which does not haveMcNesby’s support; theGuardian Civic League; the National Black Police Officers Association; and Eddie Lopez, president of SALEA (Spanish American Law Enforcement Association) and vice president of the National Coalition of Latino Officers.

Key Donors

Negrin hasaccepteddonations from a number of current and former Aramark executives, including $15,000 total from former Aramark chairman and CEO Joseph Neubauer and his wife, Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer. Otherdonationsinclude $9,000 from John Dodds, a Morgan Lewis partner who has represented pharmaceutical companies and financial services companies; $9,000 from Richard Glazer, the founder of Cozen O’Connor and chief of theInnocence Project; and $250 from Heather Podesta, a powerful Democraticlobbyist.

He also received $4,000 from Exelon PAC, which regularly contributes to both parties but leans Republican; $2,500 from William Hankowsky, the president and CEO of Liberty Property Trust, which spearheaded the city’s stadium projects and the Comcast building; and $6,000 from Michael Silberman, vice-president of chemical corporation Celanese.

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